David Guetta & Marten Hørger team up for ‘The Freaks’

18 February 2023

Musical trailblazer and international icon David Guetta teams up with Marten Hørger, one of the leading forces in the global Bass House movement to release their new single, ‘The Freaks’, a powerful future rave track complete with low-pitched, distorted vocals, and gigantic builds perfect for the dancefloor and beyond.

In early September 2022, Hørger tested the first demo of ‘The Freaks‘ at Burning Man. The following day, he performed it at David Guetta’s show in Essen, Germany. Guetta and Hørger had been in touch for a while, and had long wanted to collaborate on a track – finally, with ‘The Freaks’, an idea was born that was musically tangible for both of them. They started sharing their ideas on it, making tweaks, sending demos back and forth, and testing the record during their tours over the following months. After David’s performance at the FIFA World Cup in Doha, Qatar, they felt the track was finished and quickly found a home for it with What A DJ / Spinnin’ Records.

Whilst having recently received the title of ‘Producer Of The Year’ at the BRIT Awards, David Guetta is on a hot string of club releases. He has gone from strength to strength with his underground-focused Future Rave project alongside MORTEN; the duo released their eagerly awaited Future Rave EP ‘Episode 2’ in November, which featured the powerful lead single ‘You Can’t Change Me’ with Raye. In addition, David has massively impacted the club scene with his collaboration ‘It’s Ours’ with ARTBAT and Idris Elba, his acid-fuelled remix of Sam Smith & Kim Petras’ ‘Unholy’, and a huge remix of the hit single ‘Bad Memories’ by Meduza. ‘The Freaks’ with Marten Hørger is another great addition to this impressive string of club hits. Already reaching the #1 potion on 1001 Tracklists trending chart, ‘The Freaks’ will definitely be heard in the festival season to come.

About David Guetta:

Currently, the #4 most streamed artist on Spotify globally and with 2x Grammys awards, 11x Grammy nominations, 7x UK number 1 singles, over 35 billion global streams, 50 million records sold worldwide, and over 72 million monthly Spotify listeners to his name, David Guetta has been voted the world’s best DJ in the DJ Mag ‘Top 100’ three times and won the accolade for best electronic artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards. To round off 2022 he won two awards at the LOS40 Music Awards, two awards at MTV EMA’s, the ‘Dance Act of the Year’ award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards and ‘DJ of the Year’ award at the NRJ Music Awards, and was additionally named #1 Producer by 1001Tracklists. Guetta began 2023 at #1 on the Global Spotify Chart with current global smash ‘I’m Good’ with Bebe Rexha. The track earned Guetta his eleventh Grammy nomination, receiving a nod for ‘Best Dance/Electronic Recording’, has garnered 1 billion global streams and simultaneously hit #1 at the US Top 40 & US Dance Radio charts. Guetta entered the 2023 awards season with nominations at the Grammys, iHeartRadio Awards, the QMusic Top 40 Awards, and at the Brits received a ‘Producer of the Year’ accolade in recognition of his production successes, and also delivered an incredible performance of hits.

Throughout 2022 he released a variety of collaborations including commercial hit ‘Don’t You Worry’ with Black Eyed Peas and Shakira and UK Top 5 pop anthem ‘Crazy What Love Can Do’ with Becky Hill and Ella Henderson. A master creative across genres, Guetta has also gone from strength to strength with his underground-focused Future Rave project alongside Morten; the duo released their eagerly awaited Future Rave EP ‘Episode 2’ in November, which featured the powerful lead single ‘You Can’t Change Me’ with Raye. Elsewhere he has provided remixes for some of the world’s biggest stars including pop royalty Coldplay, Dua Lipa and Megan Thee Stallion, Kodak Black… His final release of 2022 was an acid-fuelled remix of Sam Smith & Kim Petras’ ‘Unholy’. He is additionally working on new music for his underground alias Jack Back.

About Marten Hørger:

Having released music on Musical Freedom, Confession and House Call Records, Marten Hørger is Beatport’s best-selling bass house artist of all time – he has over one million monthly listeners on Spotify and his music can be heard on Radio Stations like BBC Radio1, Diplo’s Revolution via SiriusXM, Tomorrowland One World Radio, Apple’s Beats One, Australia’s TripleJ, is supported by some of the world’s biggest DJs. His worldwide touring schedule includes 100 shows a year, including festival appearances at Glastonbury, Burning Man and Shambhala, as well as appearances at venues like Ushuaia Ibiza, the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, and many more. In 2023, Hørger will have appearances at Tomorrowland and Parookaville festivals. Being a truly inventive and emotional person in his creative process, Marten will continue to do his very own thing, and create great memories with his listeners & fans all over the world.